ACM SIGDA and IEEE CEDA partner in sponsoring a new award honoring
A. Richard Newton.

SIGDA, Special Interest Group on Design Automation, is ACM's professional development organization for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community. SIGDA's mission is accomplished via a variety of activities:

• SIGDA supports EDA conferences and other events:
  • The four flagship EDA conferences (DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASPDAC)
  • More than a dozen symposia/workshops, UBooth, PhD Forum, and DASS at DAC, CADathlon at ICCAD
  
  
• SIGDA supports EDA technical activities and new initiatives:
  • Technical Committees
  
  
• SIGDA supports EDA publications:
  • E-Newsletter and DA TechNews
  • Multimedia Monographs
  • ACM TODAES
  
  
• SIGDA supports students (and young professors):
  • Undergraduate and graduate scholarships, awards, travel grants, and DASS